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C1883
Messrs. Shepherd & Co.’s Nursery, Surry Hills.
Rare colonial engraving of Shepherd’s Nursery, Darling Nursery Bourke Street Surry Hills Inset titles: 1.-Nursery Lines of Young Plants. 2.-Rockery, Succulents, and Ferns. 3.-Interior of Conservatory. 4.-General view of the Bordersand Plant Houses. 5.-Entrance to the Shubberies. 6.-Interior of Bush … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Messrs. Shepherd & Co.’s Nursery, Surry Hills.
Date:
C1883
Condition:
Printers creases, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
322mm
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1883
Description:
Rare colonial engraving of Shepherd’s Nursery, Darling Nursery Bourke Street Surry Hills
Inset titles:
1.-Nursery Lines of Young Plants. 2.-Rockery, Succulents, and Ferns. 3.-Interior of Conservatory. 4.-General view of the Bordersand Plant Houses. 5.-Entrance to the Shubberies. 6.-Interior of Bush House. 7.-View of Tropical House.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)
Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.
